高二英語Saving the earth教案
2. group work: a debate coal is/isn’t a valuable resource.
pros cons
a businessman an environmentalist
a scientist a local citizen
a local leader
… …
period 2 reading welcome to the earth summit
i. goals:
1.to promote the students' understanding of the text
2. to get the students to grasp the detailed information of the text
3. to enable the students to master some words and expressions
4. to improve the students' reading ability
ii. teaching procedures
step 1 warming up
ask the students some questions connected with pollution
q1: did you use to go swimming in a river when you were young?
what about the children today? why not?
q2: do you use one-off chopsticks while having fast food?
q3: how do you deal with the plastic bags?
q4: what do you think of the air today?
q5: what do you think of the relationship between economy development and
pollution?
step 2 pre-reading
1. discussion
read the title and discuss in pairs what problems will be discussed at the summit.
(as the title states, problems related to the earth will be discussed at the summit, like air, water, forest, desert, grassland, etc)
2. prediction
group work: fill in the chart with what ss predict about what each part of the text will be about.
introduction
body
conclusion
3. problem-solving
go through the whole passage and compare whose guess is the closest to the content of the passage.
4. find the answers to these two questions.
q1: when and where was the earth summit held?
(in in johannesburg in south africa.)
q2: which chinese officer attended the meeting? what did he say?
(premier zhu rongji; stressed the need for quality and fairness in the world. )
step 3 while-reading
1. individual work
get the students to read the text carefully and ask some students to answer the following questions in their own words.
q1: what was the meeting held in 1972 about ?
q2: what's the main theme of the earth summit?
q3: do you know the 'big three’? what are they?
q4: where do you think usually has 'the big three'? why?
q5: what does global development mean nowadays? what should developed
countries actually do?
q6: what's the use of conferences like the earth summit?
q7: what's the key to the future? as a student, what should you do?
2. reading for information
introduction name the earth summit